The Caprera Canyon (north–eastern Sardinia): A hotspot of cetacean diversity in the western Mediterranean Sea

• Luca Bittau ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lucabittau@seame.it (LB); mariliana.leotta@gmail.com (ML)

  Affiliation SEA ME Sardinia association (Scientific Education and Activities in the Marine Environment), La Maddalena, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0009-0001-7672-2056

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• Renata Manconi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

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• Mariliana Leotta ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  * E-mail: lucabittau@seame.it (LB); mariliana.leotta@gmail.com (ML)

  Affiliation SEA ME Sardinia association (Scientific Education and Activities in the Marine Environment), La Maddalena, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0009-0003-7880-3225

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• Rossana Tenerelli,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation SEA ME Sardinia association (Scientific Education and Activities in the Marine Environment), La Maddalena, Italy

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• Mattia Cristina Leone,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

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• Elena Fontanesi,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Delfini del Ponente APS, Imperia, Italy

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• Federica Fonda,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Life Science, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-1019

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• Ginevra Boldrocchi,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Human Sciences, Innovation and Territory, University of Insubria, Como, Italy, CNR-ISP, Mestre, Venezia, Italy

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• Sandro Carniel,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations CNR-ISP, Mestre, Venezia, Italy, One Ocean Foundation, Milano, Italy

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• Rocco Tiberti

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Ecology, and Earth Sciences (DiBEST), University of Calabria, Rende, Cosenza, Italy

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